expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
expiated
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past participleof expiate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof expiate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
expiateverb (used with object)to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
Example Sentences
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The promise is that our guilt can be expiated by making money.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2017
Generally, there is—much later—a period of national reckoning when the sins of the moment of crisis are both expiated and forgiven.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2015
"My hunch," says Mesthene, "is that man may have finally expiated his original sin, and might now aspire to bliss."
From Time Magazine Archive
If friends persuaded him to eat more he expiated by fasting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of them had expiated their offence already.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
